Beta or VHS?\n\nBlueray or HD DVD? Direct3D or OpenGL? For years now, Direct3D and OpenGL have coexisted, but things are changing, and it”s not clear where they are going to…
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I understand confusion when I see it. Different segments of the CAD industry are moving in different directions, and it is by no means a given which direction is the…
Anyone who used CAD in the period from 1995 up to about 2010 was very lucky. You got to see an explosion of new tools to create and control CAD…
I keep mourning the passing of CAD as a topic interesting enough on its own to keep producing interesting articles. It used to be that you didn’t have to look…
I had a chance to talk to Dan Staples about the new release of Solid Edge 2022. Matt: As a Solidworks user I can’t help but notice that some of…
In a time when other engineering technology developers have seemingly lost interest in CAD, Solid Edge is still developing stuff for people like us. There are some really significant developments…
Alright, don’t start in on me. I’ve got a lot of misgivings about this software, just based on its name. First, Autodesk (or AutoCAD) to me means low-rent, underpowered software…
I was involved in SolidWorks sales from 1997 until 2005. The first three years were definitely the most exciting period of that time. We were the underdog, fighting Pro/E, AutoCAD,…
I think I remember PTC CEO Dick Harrison saying at one point that geometry creation is a solved problem. Or something to that effect. This was of course when he…
Commenters have asked some great questions about Synch Tech. I’ll try to answer them as best I can. Kevin Quigley …parametrics with no history is more of a 2D…